"Where's the legal defense fund, I want to contribute?"
I'm hopeful that Princeton helps in his defense. The report is a Technical Report in their Computer Science department, and thus at some level has their "seal of approval". At the very least, it is a strong case for the report falling under the academic allowances specified in the DMCA
For example, I know Andrew "bunnie" Huang of xbox cracking fame was very hesitant to publish the paper without MIT's support, and MIT (specifically their lawyers) held out on that support until MS agreed that it was legitimate adademic research and that they had no intention of going to court.
You're on the right track, though. Several sites still use sendmail because it's already there and it already works. Sysadmins (myself included) are lazy. While I personally *like* to learn things,
I also like to learn things, but holy god the sendmail O'Reilly is a dense, 1000 page pile.
FWIW, I use postfix now whenever I have a special need for a mail server, and usually stick to the default MTA on whatever distro I'm using, otherwise.
I've got an SGI in the garage I bought for $40. Original price on that model was more like $6000. If SGI told me that I had to pay $1250 to relicense Irix for it, and tried to convince me that this was a bargain (after all, it's 75% off!), do you think I'd agree? Do you think I'd pay it?
In this hypothetical situation, hey, if you want IRIX on it, then pay the man. Otherwise, all you've got is a pile of hardware, which is exactly what you've paid for. You could always attempt to install NetBSD on it.
The point is, if you want IRIX, get a license from the makers of IRIX. Otherwise, you get to power it up and watch the LED! And perhaps play with the boot PROM! Joy! (In this case, the point is rather moot because you can get almost up-to-date copies of IRIX for non-commercial use from SGI for free.)
If you bought a Cisco/NetApp box... way to go! Nice pile of hardware! Oh wait, you want to actually use it as a router/filer? Yes, you'll need to get (hopefully legally) the software for it. What were you expecting? Why would anyone expect to get free (as in cost) software for closed, proprietary hardware?
The hardware and the software are discrete entities, and all of this was made quite straightforward to the original purchaser of the system. Other than a distaste for how the legal issues of software licensing works, there's no reason for anyone to be complaining.
there exists kerberos authenticated SMTP and also kerberos authenticated POP (KPOP). both are in use at MIT, but the former is a relatively new service.
Godel, Escher, Bach talks all about the overlaps and comparisons between biology and computers. In particular, Hofstadter details a one-to-one correspondence from the Central Dogma to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.
It's dense, but it's great stuff.
This is why you have a hierarchy of keys. For example, have one key that you use mainly for signing other keys (and mostly keep offline), and have another set of keys that you use for signing mail. You can easily revoke one of the latter keys if there is ever a suspected incident (and/or give them an expiration date), and then just make a new key (and sign it).
Of course, you'll still SOL if your signing key is compromised.
"What's funny about using Microsoft Chat," he adds with a sly smile, "is that everybody has to choosean icon to represent themselves. Some of these guys haven't bothered, so the program assigns them one. We'll be in the middle of a battle and a bunch of field artillery colonels will come online in the form of these big-breasted blondes. We've got a few space aliens, too."
This is the exact same software used to run the online comic Jerkcity.
Tryreadingsome.
They're great, but they take a little getting used to. And it's absolutely hilarious to imagine to imagine generals being mapped to Spigot, Pants, Deuce, Rands, and the rest of the gang.:)
Why not just put the bs.close(); right after the// Do some stuff and lose the finally block altogether? Unless you're trying to distinguish between an IOE in failing to open the file vs. one later when trying to close it after doing some stuff.
Rarely have I felt the need to use a finally block...
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If Babbage had completed the Analytical engine, we could have been in a very different world. One version would have been hypothesized in William Gibson's "The Difference Engine".
That was one Gibson book in which the world is infinitely more interesting than the story.
Although some would argue that has always been the case for Gibson.
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For example, I know Andrew "bunnie" Huang of xbox cracking fame was very hesitant to publish the paper without MIT's support, and MIT (specifically their lawyers) held out on that support until MS agreed that it was legitimate adademic research and that they had no intention of going to court.
I've done this for the last two or three years, and it's been great.
This last time around they offered to keep my info active for more money, but, really, saving the pdfs works well enough.
Funny that. I have an SB in EECS.
Player's Handbook, a very useful component of D&D. Take it with you to work and start up a game.
I also like to learn things, but holy god the sendmail O'Reilly is a dense, 1000 page pile.
FWIW, I use postfix now whenever I have a special need for a mail server, and usually stick to the default MTA on whatever distro I'm using, otherwise.
E.g. everyone who wants to can moderate the article, and have users (with accounts) get a score based on what their friends and foes thought of it.
Wow, what an entirely useless article. I shall supplement it with a useless post.
Read Stephen King's The Dark Half. :)
In this hypothetical situation, hey, if you want IRIX on it, then pay the man. Otherwise, all you've got is a pile of hardware, which is exactly what you've paid for. You could always attempt to install NetBSD on it.
The point is, if you want IRIX, get a license from the makers of IRIX. Otherwise, you get to power it up and watch the LED! And perhaps play with the boot PROM! Joy! (In this case, the point is rather moot because you can get almost up-to-date copies of IRIX for non-commercial use from SGI for free.)
If you bought a Cisco/NetApp box... way to go! Nice pile of hardware! Oh wait, you want to actually use it as a router/filer? Yes, you'll need to get (hopefully legally) the software for it. What were you expecting? Why would anyone expect to get free (as in cost) software for closed, proprietary hardware?
The hardware and the software are discrete entities, and all of this was made quite straightforward to the original purchaser of the system. Other than a distaste for how the legal issues of software licensing works, there's no reason for anyone to be complaining.
I've had success converting their rescue/install floppy to a 2.4.21 kernel for installing on a machine that needed 2.4.21 to find the scsi card (aic79xx).
Hope this helps.
there exists kerberos authenticated SMTP and also kerberos authenticated POP (KPOP). both are in use at MIT, but the former is a relatively new service.
Godel, Escher, Bach talks all about the overlaps and comparisons between biology and computers. In particular, Hofstadter details a one-to-one correspondence from the Central Dogma to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. It's dense, but it's great stuff.
"People will believe what you say if you tell them I said it first."
--Ben Franklin
It didn't used to be that way! You should have signed up sooner!
FWIW, paypal works great for what I use it for: dealing with ebay transactions.
This is why you have a hierarchy of keys. For example, have one key that you use mainly for signing other keys (and mostly keep offline), and have another set of keys that you use for signing mail. You can easily revoke one of the latter keys if there is ever a suspected incident (and/or give them an expiration date), and then just make a new key (and sign it).
Of course, you'll still SOL if your signing key is compromised.
We prefer to beat them with printer cables and/or slap them with wrist rests.
jerkcity on real player
This is the exact same software used to run the online comic Jerkcity.
Try reading some. They're great, but they take a little getting used to. And it's absolutely hilarious to imagine to imagine generals being mapped to Spigot, Pants, Deuce, Rands, and the rest of the gang. :)
If it's anything at all like minidisc, skipping won't be a problem.
Rarely have I felt the need to use a finally block...
That was one Gibson book in which the world is infinitely more interesting than the story.
Although some would argue that has always been the case for Gibson.
In particular, check out the errata! How often do you see graph whose axes are Behavior, Fear, and Rage!
Let us not forget snap, crackle, and pop.
I for one am still not convinced that this is anything more than general DARPA/government flakiness in choosing and funding research projects.
Regardless of why the funding didn't happen, it still makes the US look bad, since at least among geeks this was very interesting news.
There's a Vampire crossover supplement to Paranoia. They refer to the original as Game: the Subtitle.